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Now that we have traveled back in time (we left Auckland on Nov 30 at 20:00, and arrived in Winnipeg on Nov 30 at 19:15), recovered from traveling back in time, acclimatized to Winnipeg weather, and returned to work (in Josh's case), we decided it was time to reflect on our 'great adventure'.

First of all, thank you to everyone who followed our blog! I knew that our parents, siblings, some friends, and Grandma Samm would ...

It is not a smooth ride on the train. You get quite knocked around walking from carriage to carriage. It is too rough to type now so will put it away. It usually means the train is going fast to catch up time lost. The third night when we went from Edmonton was crazy. The engineer must have wanted to catch up on heaps of time as we rocked and rolled quite fiercely and I was quite pleased that I was in a bed. The last night he ...

... for breakfast a couple of times) was the architecture. Winnipeg has taken care to preserve its buildings, rather than tearing them down and replacing them. Except the city hall that is. In the 1960s, one of Winnipeg's mayors decided he really didn't care for the beautiful building that was the city hall, and arranged to have it torn down and replaced with a lump of concrete. It did make me nostalgic for my university days I must admit. Other than ...

... It was that kind of casual "drop in when you can" vibe, which is how I'd planned it, because that allows everyone to be flexible at a busy time of year. Barb Hum snuck downstairs a bit earlier and was an angel, helping clean up before we knew what she was up to. Others jumped in and helped toward the end, and I was grateful, because it saved me hours of work otherwise. There was so much cake, chocolate, snacks and soda left over, but thankfully nothing that couldn't be either frozen ...